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Simon Rae – Letter To My Readers
I have a very low boredom threshold, so if I bore myself, I know I’ll bore you and you’ll rightly…
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Check out the latest news from the RLF, WritersMosaic highlights, and Collected – our collection of interviews, reflections and articles exploring the literary life and world of writers today.
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Jonathan Edwards – The Writer And Nature
Aquariums, zoos, safari parks, they’re otherworldly places: so many things there have clearly just landed from outer space. So many…
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Anna Woodford – The Perfect Place To Write
In my teens, I made sure the entire family knew about it by donning my writing trousers – jeans with…
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Sara Wheeler
Sara Wheeler speaks with Caroline Sanderson about inspiration, the future of travel writing and celebrating the human spirit’s endurance. Sara…
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Maria McCann – Letter To My Teachers
Even the fiercest, toughest girls responded to your unfeigned kindliness, your motherly affection. With hindsight I see how much you…
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Paul Dodgson – How I Write
I needed to learn that so much happens in the prewriting stage when the mind is working in the background,…
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Caroline Smailes – Dreams And The Writer
I heard the words I’d typed – one day, years ago, not feeling like a ‘proper’ writer – brought to…
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How To Sum Up A Life
Sophie Duffy reflects on how finding the details that illuminate a life can help mourners navigate the grieving process. How…
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Suzannah Dunn – Why I Write
What am I thinking of when I write? Why do I think I am doing it? I am bringing my…
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Poetry Break with Rebecca Watts
Poetry Break: Rebecca Watts and Julia Copus discuss a romantic poem by Hart Crane. Rebecca Watts and our host Julia…
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Sarah Duncan – Letter To My Readers
I see writing for publication as a contract. I make up stuff that I hope will inform, entertain, scare, thrill…
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Carina Rodney – My Reading Habits
I joined the Barbara Pym Society and attended their conferences in Oxford, where I bought Pym swag and home-made quince…